Ben Hoyt added the comment: Ah, this is great. I definitely like the idea of a generator version of os.listdir(). And I like the name iterdir() -- it fits with iteritems() etc. They've gone in 3.x, of course, but listdir didn't change to an iterator, so...
See also Betterwalk, my work-in-progress with very similar goals: https://github.com/benhoyt/betterwalk#readme It implements iterdir(), as well as iterdir_stat() which yields (name, stat) tuples. iterdir_stat() is especially important on Windows, where the directory iteration functions (FindFirstFile/FindNextFile) already give you full stat information. The intent of Betterwalk is to use these functions to speed up os.walk() by 2-3 times (and that's with the ctypes version, so it'll only get better in pure C). So I'm +1 for adding iterdir(), and I'd love to see iterdir_stat() so users can write fast os.walk() type functions without resorting to C. I'll look over the attached patches at some stage, especially the Windows code. ---------- nosy: +benhoyt _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11406> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
